Kukla's Korner Hockey

Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli was asked about the veteran defenceman’s performance so far with his team yesterday and didn’t exactly paint a picture of a player with a long career as a Bruin ahead of him.

“Has he been a disappointment? He hasn’t played up to the level that we expected,” Chiarelli told 98.5 The Sports Hub. “There have been parts of his game where he hasn’t played in the playoffs for a while and some of those [bad] habits have stuck with him. We expected better.”